I find that curious because Max has just said that if it wasn't for the invasion of Belgium, this horrible Germany he's conjured up. It would have been fantastically difficult and asked with New York was impossible. This is why the other side keep having to retrofit and go backwards. The people who were taking these decisions did not take the view that Margaret and Max took as they didn't have 2020 hindsight of Bogeymen. They took a rational decision and their view was that the danger was not so great, but that the Belgian thing meant they had to go in. There's a political dimension on both sides. If you go to 1914, we're dealing with sensible men who
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy that laid the foundations for decades of destructive upheaval and violence across Europe. To debate the issue, we invited leading historians Margaret MacMillan, Max Hastings, John Charmley and Dominic Sandbrook to an event hosted by journalist, columnist and national security expert, Edward Lucas.
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